[tex-live] new install concept for TeXLive

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Wed, 21 Mar 2001 23:18:12 +0000


Staszek Wawrykiewicz writes:
 > collections
 > 1. `misc' collection: ruhyphen should go to `cyrillic'
 > 2. `misc': expressg, feynmf, threed, mpattern -> `graphics'
 > 3. `games': musictex, musixtex ?! ;-))) -> `misc'
 > 
 > packages
 > 4. mf-ps is rather package for graphics so please change in mf-ps.tpm
 > <    <TPM:Collection>fonts</TPM:Collection>
 > <    <TPM:Level>3</TPM:Level>
 > 
 > >    <TPM:Collection>graphics</TPM:Collection>
 > >    <TPM:Level>3</TPM:Level>
 > and move it from `fonts_extra' to `graphics'
done

 > 5. mathpazo.tpm:
will do

 > 6. chemarrow.tpm:
will do

 > I played a little with new install-cd.sh
 > 1. system detection does not work on my Linux

aaaargh! what happens?

 > 2. since you process .vlist files, the dependecies defined in collections
 >    cannot work.
no, I have not looked at  implementing that at all

 >  Moreover cpp is used, so on RedHat6.1 and 6.2 we have 
 >    a problem: cpp isn't in $PATH (it was a bug, of course, but...)

ah. I was hoping that cpp was standard enough. what about solelim?

 > 3. Options -> create symlinks for binaries /usr/local/bin (should be
 >    /usr/bin)
hmm. must change that...

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